flutter_facebook_appevents

2019 © Weizhong Yang.

The package bridges Facebook App Events feature to your Flutter app.

It helps you to install Facebook SDK 5.x for iOS and Android, and makes your app to start sending events to Facebook automatically once you complete the configuration for your app. You can track additional events with the package, if you want to.

Installation

Add the following line to your pubspec.yaml file

dependencies:
  flutter_facebook_appevents:
    git: "[email protected]:xddd/flutter_facebook_appevents.git"

The call flutter packages get.

Configuration

You need add additional configuration to your app in order to integrate Facebook SDK on both iOS and Android platform.

iOS

Please add following lines to your Info.plist file:

<key>FacebookAppID</key>
<string>[YOUR_FB_APP_ID]</string>
<key>FacebookDisplayName</key>
<string>[YOUR_FB_APP_NAME]</string>
<key>FacebookAutoLogAppEventsEnabled</key>
<true/>
<key>FacebookAdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled</key>
<true/>
<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
        <string>Editor</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>Facebook</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
            <string>fb[YOUR_FB_APP_ID]</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</array>

Your Facebook app ID and display name are required. On the other hand, you can decide to enable auto-log app events and collecting advertiser ID or not by your self.

Android

Please add the following lines to the application scope in your AndroidManifest.xml file:

<meta-data
    android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId"
    android:value="@string/facebook_app_id" />
<meta-data
    android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AutoLogAppEventsEnabled"
    android:value="true" />
<meta-data
    android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AutoInitEnabled"
    android:value="true" />
<meta-data
    android:name="com.facebook.sdk.AdvertiserIDCollectionEnabled"
    android:value="false" />

Then add create a file strings.xml under app->src->main->res->values, and add following lines:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="facebook_app_id">[YOUR_FB_APP_ID]</string>
    <string name="fb_login_protocol_scheme">fb[YOUR_FB_APP_ID]</string>
</resources>

Manual Events

You can track additional events using the package as well. To track a manual event, just call FacebookAppEvents.logEvent(). For example

FacebookAppEvents.logEvent("EVENT_NAME", {"PARAMETER_NAME": "VALUE"}))

You can take a look at the classes like EventName and ParameterName to find the events and parameters that Facebook supports.

Notes

I wrote the package merely for my own need, because I could not find any package for Facebook App Events in June, 2019. However, I found there are various great packages for the same purpose when I published the package. You may want to take a look on the packages:

• facebook_app_events by oddbit.id.
• facebook_analytics_plugin by Khalit Hartmann.